17th Annual South Carolina Writers Workshop Conference

Editors

	Robert Cumming the owner and publisher of The Iris Publishing Group, Inc which has two book imprints: Iris Press and Tellico Books. Iris Press, founded in 1975 in Binghamton, NY in 1975 by Patricia Wilcox, is a literary imprint which specializes in poetry and literary prose by established writers. Robert has owned this publishing company for eleven years, but has been editing texts for publications for over thirty. Iris releases between six and ten new books every year. Cumming’s writing in recent years has focused on poetry and essays. www.irisbooks.com
	Carol Ann Davis is an Associate Professor of English at The College of Charleston and Editor of Crazyhorse. She lives in Charleston, SC, where she directs the undergraduate creative writing program at The College of Charleston and edits Crazyhorse.
	Jim Gilbert is the managing editor at River City Publishing in Montgomery, Alabama. He is a free-lance book reviewer and essayist for the Mobile Register, and his Pushcart-nominated short fiction has appeared in the Red Bluff Review, Climbing Mt. Cheaha: Emerging Alabama Writers, and Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe, Volume 1.
	Anne Hicks became a small-press publisher three years ago. Her short stories journal, moonShine review, is published bi-annually, and she instructs creative writers one-on-one, facilitating in publishable works. Anne obtained her Master of Arts, emphasis in creative writing, from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
	Rose Hilliard is an associate editor at St. Martin’s Press, where she primarily handles women’s fiction, romance and pop culture books for mass market, trade and hardcover. She began her publishing career in 2001 as an editorial assistant at Time Warner Book Group, and went on to work as an assistant editor at Penguin’s New American Library. She looks for stories with a great hook, an appealing voice and memorable characters.
	Dave Long is a Fiction Acquisitions Editor with Bethany House Publishers. Before migrating to the editorial side of the company, he spent six years in the marketing department. He’s authored two novels, one of which won a Christy Award, and is the voice behind the faithinfiction writing community.
	Jennifer Pooley is an Editor at William Morrow an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, where she began her career in 1998. She acquires literary fiction and nonfiction as well as the occasional whimsical gift title and is actively looking for both fiction (literary; women's; international) and nonfiction (narrative; memoir; sports; journalism; and humor). www.harpercollins.com
	Liz Scheier spent four years at the Bantam Dell Publishing Group, and left in early 2004 to join the New American Library, a division of the Penguin Group USA. She acquires mainly science fiction and fantasy for the Roc imprint, but is also interested in thrillers, humor, popular culture, and works of GLBT interest.
	Kristen Weber is a senior editor at New American Library, a division of the Penguin Group, where she oversees Obsidian Mysteries, their dedicated mystery imprint, and their movie / TV tie-in program. She also acquires in other areas that include commercial thrillers, women's fiction, and non fiction concerning true crime, pop culture, and women's issues.